Impact of preoperative antibiotics and other variables on integrated microbiome-host transcriptomic data generated from colorectal cancer resections

Table 7 Comparison of the mean quantitative polymerase chain reaction mean threshold cycles ± SD between genomic DNA extracted from paired frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin embedded samples

	F. nucleatum nusG		16S rRNA		Human SLCO2A1
	Frozen	FFPE	Frozen	FFPE	Frozen	FFPE
Tumor A	25.9 ± 1.2	35.4 ± 0.1	21.8 ± 0.1	31.4 ± 0.1	32.6 ± 2.5	39.3 ± 0.6
Nontumor A	37.2 ± 0.6	39.9/ND	22.2 ± 0.1	31.7 ± 0.3	34.8 ± 0.5	ND
Tumor B	26.0 ± 1.0	27.5 ± 1.0	21.6 ± 0.2	28.3 ± 0.1	33.2 ± 1.0	32.5 ± 1.3
Nontumor B	31.5 ± 1.4	35.1 ± 0.7	25.2 ± 0.1	31.2 ± 0.6	34.6 ± 0.9	38.2 ± 0.1

F. nucleatum: Fusobacterium nucleatum; FFPE: Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded; ND: Not detected.